What Does RCM Desktop Do?

​Written by RCM facilitators for RCM facilitators, RCM Desktop includes a large number of timesaving and ease-of-use features that significantly enhance facilitator productivity and enable efficient live data entry during RCM analysis meetings.

The overall purpose of the RCM Desktop software package is:

To enable the RCM Facilitator to manage all aspects of an RCM Analysis (using any RCM Task Selection Logic) and to document it live during analysis group meetings, eliminating the need for traditional flip charts.

In order to help achieve the above, the software stores the following information:​1. The bare minimum required to conduct a basic RCM Analysis, as follows:

Analysis-level information, such as title, group members, equipment analysed

List of equipment Functions (numbered sequentially, starting at 1)

List of Functional Failures for each Function (lettered sequentially within each function, starting at A)

List of Failure Modes for each Functional Failure (numbered sequentially within each functional failure, starting at 1)

Failure Effects for each Failure Mode

RCM Analysis group's answers to the Decision Logic for each Failure Mode

RCM Analysis group's decision on how to manage each Failure Mode, including:

Scheduled Maintenance Task details (task, its interval and who does it)

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2. Additional information required for more advanced RCM Analysis and to support other functions, as follows: